Job 6:1–2
BUT Job answered and said,
¶ But Iob answered, and sayd,
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
Oh that my griefe were throughly weighed, and my calamitie †layd in the balances together.
Original 1611 marginTranslation notes and cross-references are kept distinct.
- †Hebrew wordingHeb. lifted vp.
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Job 6:1
Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.
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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of answer, meaning to reply, respond, or give account.
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Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
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Job 6:2
Sorrow, pain, distress, anguish, trouble, burden, injury, or the cause of such suffering in mind, body, or spirit.
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Completely, fully, or in every part.
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Sense 1: Measured or ascertained by scales or balance. Sense 2: Figuratively, considered, evaluated, or judged by a standard.
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A grievous event or condition of ruin, disaster, affliction, misery, or destructive trouble.
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Sense 1: Placed, set, put down, deposited, arranged, established, founded, imposed, applied, stored, buried, or overlaid. Sense 2: Reclined or brought to rest.
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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.
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1. An instrument with opposing scales for weighing. 2. By figure, the weighing or judging of a person or matter.
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In one place, company, time, purpose, or united condition.
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5:27Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
5:27Loe this, wee haue searched it, so it is; heare it, and know thou it †for thy good.
6:1BUT Job answered and said,
6:1¶ But Iob answered, and sayd,
Selected passage6:2Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
6:2Oh that my griefe were throughly weighed, and my calamitie †layd in the balances together.
Selected passage6:3For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
6:3For now it would be heauier then the sand of the sea, therefore my words are †swallowed vp.